{"id":90486,"date":"2026-10-01T12:15:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T16:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=90486"},"modified":"2026-10-01T13:38:51","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T17:38:51","slug":"mega-man-dual-override-developers-dish-on-designing-for-new-and-old-players-alike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=90486","title":{"rendered":"Mega Man: Dual Override Developers Dish on Designing for New and Old Players Alike"},"content":{"rendered":"<section data-transform=\"mobile-ad-break\">\n<p>The 40th anniversary of Mega Man is just around the corner, celebrating four decades of one of gaming\u2019s most enduring icons. After going hands-on with both <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/mega-man-dual-override-preview\">Mega Man<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/mega-man-dual-override-preview-we-played-as-proto-man-this-time\">Proto Man<\/a> in the upcoming mainline game Mega Man: Dual Override, IGN had the chance to sit down and chat with the design team. <\/p>\n<p>With the help of an interpreter, I was able to ask Director Shinya Ikuta, Producer Hiroyuki Minamitani, Art Director Yuji Ishihara, and Art Director Shinsuke Komaki, a wide range of questions, from design inspirations for Twinkle Girl, what makes Proto Man and Mega Man different, whether or not we will ever get a Mega Man dating sim, and more. Read on to find the answer to that and other burning questions. <\/p>\n<section data-transform=\"ignvideo\" data-slug=\"mega-man-dual-override-official-proto-man-gameplay-trailer-nintendo-direct-september-2026\" data-loop=\"\">\n<p><em>Note that as this was a group interview through a single interpreter, with multiple people contributing, answers will be attributed to the full group, as Capcom.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>IGN: This is a big anniversary for Mega Man, and you\u2019ve said the design of this game is meant to celebrate this. Can you tell me a bit about how that anniversary impacts the development goals of this game?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Capcom:<\/strong> Yes, next year is the big 40th anniversary<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 40th anniversary of Mega Man is just around the corner, celebrating four decades of one of gaming\u2019s most enduring icons. After going hands-on with both Mega Man and Proto Man in the upcoming mainline game Mega Man: Dual Override, IGN had the chance to sit down and chat with the design team. With the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":90488,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90486"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90486"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90490,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90486\/revisions\/90490"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/90488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}